"I got this big fear of doing smoking jokes in my act and showing up five years from now goin' 'good evening everybody, remember me, smoking's bad. Eeww. You ever seen somebody do that? I've seen someone do that. Let me tell you something — if you're smoking out of a hole in your neck I'd think about quitting. And that's just me, ya know."
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